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Reset

My Fight for Inclusion and Lasting Change

by Ellen Pao
Emily Woo Zeller
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The “necessary and incisive” (Roxane Gay) account of the discrimination case that “has blown open a conversation about the status of women” in the workplace (The New York Times)
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2017 FINANCIAL TIMES AND MCKINSEY BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR | NAMED A BEST FALL BOOK BY ELLE AND BUSTLE
In 2015, Ellen K. Pao sued a powerhouse Silicon Valley venture capital firm, calling out workplace discrimination and retaliation against women and other underrepresented groups. Her suit rocked the tech world—and exposed its toxic culture and its homogeneity. Her message overcame negative PR attacks that took aim at her professional conduct and her personal life, and she won widespread public support—Time hailed her as “the face of change.” Though Pao lost her suit, she revolutionized the conversation at tech offices, in the media, and around the world. In Reset, she tells her full story for the first time.
The daughter of immigrants, Pao was taught that through hard work she could achieve her dreams. She earned multiple Ivy League degrees, worked at top startups, and in 2005 was recruited by Kleiner Perkins, arguably the world’s leading venture capital firm at the time. In many ways, she did everything right, and yet she and other women and people of color were excluded from success—cut out of decisive meetings and email discussions, uninvited to CEO dinners and lavish networking trips, and had their work undercut or appropriated by male executives. It was time for a system reset.
After Kleiner, Pao became CEO of reddit, where she took forceful action to change the status quo for the company and its product. She banned revenge porn and unauthorized nude photos—an action other large media sites later followed—and shut down parts of reddit over online harassment. She and seven other women tech leaders formed Project Include, an award-winning nonprofit for accelerating diversity and inclusion in tech. In her book, Pao shines a light on troubling issues that plague today’s workplace and lays out practical, inspiring, and achievable goals for a better future.
Ellen K. Pao’s Reset is a rallying cry—the story of a whistleblower who aims to empower everyone struggling to be heard, in Silicon Valley and beyond.
Praise for Reset
“Necessary and incisive . . . As Ellen Pao detailed her experiences, while also communicating her passion for the work men often impeded her from doing, I was nothing short of infuriated. It was great to see a highly accomplished woman of color speaking out like this, and hopefully this book will encourage more women to come forward, give voice to their experiences in the workplace, and contribute to meaningful change.”—Roxane Gay

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  • Release date

    September 22, 2017

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    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9781524774899
      • File size: 307594 KB
      • Duration: 10:40:49

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Although her story is set in the peculiar world of Silicon Valley venture capital, Ellen Pao's experiences of a discriminatory and retaliatory workplace will sound all too familiar to millions of women and people of color. For that reason, listeners may want to fortify themselves by starting near the audiobook's end. There, with a soothing confidence, narrator Emily Woo Zeller presents Pao's advice and initiatives for making all workplaces more inclusive and respectful. Pao describes herself as both private and somewhat reticent. Zeller wisely mirrors that. Her thoughtful and emotionally measured narration captures Pao's struggles to gain recognition and equity for her work--struggles that eventually led Pao to file a well-publicized gender discrimination suit and to establish the nonprofit advocacy group Project Include. K.W. © AudioFile 2018, Portland, Maine
    • Publisher's Weekly

      January 22, 2018
      Zeller, a veteran narrator of YA audiobooks, reads tech-industry whistleblower Pao’s story of suing a venture capital firm for gender discrimination. Zeller adopts an enthusiastic, sometimes childlike voice in Pao’s descriptions of her family and her childhood in a suburb of New Jersey, which continues throughout the book and sounds far less appropriate when Pao is describing the sexism she encountered as junior partner at the tech venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, or relaying statistics about the tech industry’s lack of inclusion of women. Overall, the narration is deeply sympathetic to Pao’s cause, but does not capture its gravitas. A Spiegel & Grau hardcover.

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